Bolt Thrower was touring Europe during the month of January and couple of days into February. The final show of this tour just as the first took place in the Netherlands. This gig was held in the Patronaat in Haarlem. A place I had never been before. I had been at the Rotterdam gig before, […]

After an interval of four years, Bolt Thrower is back with a new album titled ‘Those Once Loyal’ and a tour to promote it. On this tuesday night the band played in the Baroeg in Rotterdam. But before the warmasters themself took the stage, three support bands were given their chance to show what they […]

Already the seventh installment of the Dutch Doom Day (DDD) took place in Rotterdam this year. And again filled with two days of doom metal in all its kinds and forms. Nevertheless I only went the second day, as there were few bands on day one that I was interested in. Opening were the partly […]

So this was the second date of the Mourning Beloveth tour after the gig two weeks ago in the Baroeg. But this time all the three bands played longer and there was a local band opening.That local band was Faal whom I heard a lot of good about, and who sound pretty good on CD […]

Esoteric is doing a really short European tour (about 5 gigs) of which one is in the Netherlands. In the W2 in Den Bosch to be precise. A venue I had never been before. With the extreme doom metal that Esoteric plays it was not to be expected that this would even be close to […]

It’s has been more than 4 years since Bolt Thrower had done some serious touring apart from the 3 dates in 2008. So it was more than time for this British death metal band to tour Europe again (I know it has been more than 15 years ago they toured outside Europe). And traditionally, they […]

Ulcerate are one of the most interesting newer bands in the death metal scene, whom I only discovered last year. They went on a short European tour with only a single date in the Netherlands, so Nijmegen it had to be. And considering they are from New Zealand, I didn’t expect to have a second […]

In 1993, an album was released that is one of the definitive albums of the doom / death genre. And that isn’t from My Dying Bride, but the Australian Transcendence into the Peripheral diSEMBOWELMENT. Groundbreaking in every aspect, and at the time never heard before. I still rate it as one of my all time […]

The “Doomwards Let Us Row tour” only stopped in the Netherlands once and that was at the Baroeg. And they brought to support acts. Opening were the German doom/death band Ophis – soccer is not doom – whom I had just seen a while back with Ataraxie. They got a bit more time now. Opening […]

  I think it hasn’t been since Wâldrock 1994 that I went to an open air festival. But this second edition of Into the Grave was interesting enough to go back again to my former home town Leeuwarden. And it was held actually down-town on a former graveyard (hence the name) next to the leaning […]